Postconcussion syndrome after mild traumatic brain injury in Western Greece

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 789-793

  Spinos, Panagiotis ^a   Sakellaropoulos, George ^a   Georgiopoulos, Miltiadis ^a   Stavridi, Kleio ^a   Apostolopoulou, Katerina ^a   Ellul, John ^a   Constantoyannis, Constantine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Concussion; Head injury; Headache; Mild head injury; MTBI; Rehabilitation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ANOSMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GREECE; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958187315     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181edea67     Document Type: Article

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